D’ville audit shows decreased deficit

Published 8:00 pm, Wednesday, October 27, 2010

By TRACI L. WEISENBACH

Tribune Staff Writer

DECKERVILLE — While this school district’s board of education planned on dipping into its fund balance for the 2009-10 fiscal year, the audit report showed the district didn’t have to dip as far as originally projected.

The report, presented Monday during the regular school board meeting by Gary Anderson, of Anderson, Tuckey, Bernhardt and Doran, P.C., showed revenues totaling $5.52 million and expenditures totaling $5.64 million. This left expenditures over revenues of $124,252. This was taken out of the fund balance, which totaled $2.31 million as of June 30.

Superintendent Tricia Pawlowski said the actual deficit is about $50,000 less than what had been projected earlier in the fiscal year.

Pawlowski also noted revenues decreased by $11,798 between the original and audited budgets, while the expenditures decreased by $38,640.

She said she hopes the district will not end up with a deficit in the current fiscal year, but it’s too early to tell what will happen with the budget. For instance, districts still do not know how much money they’ll be receiving from the federal government this fiscal year.